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<CT>A Quick Guide to this Book <TNI>This is not a book about the discovery and history of LSD and all the strange and wonderful characters who are part of that story. <TNI>This is not a book about psychotherapy and the seemingly miraculous cures psychedelics sometimes produce. <TNI>This is not a book about where psychedelics plug into receptor sites on neurons and set the brain adancing. <TNI>This is not a book of the I-drank-ayahuasca-puked-and-saw-the-anaconda-goddess kind. <TNI> This book looks forward, not backwards. Experiences beget ideas, and Psychedelic Mind is a trail guide to some ideas psychedelics engender. It does this by collecting pieces of psychedelic history, psychotherapy, biology, and phenomenology and asking, “When we collect all these pieces together, what long-term, big-picture visions of our minds, society, and the future emerge?” It starts to fill a gap in psychedelic scholarship that I think of as the psychedelic humanities. <A> The Experience That Alters All Others <TNI>Part 1 is a partial map of our idea-journey into psychedelic mystical experiences. We will stop along the way to <BL> • • • compare psychedelic mystical experiences with non-psychedelic ones, look at how these experiences affect values, recognize a new religious era based on direct personal experiences, rather than words, • • speculate that they may boost our immune systems, be relieved to know that they can reduce our fear of death. <A> High-Yield Ideas <TNI>In Part Two, our path takes us to a bluff overlooking a wider prospect, and we see other paths into the psychogeography of our minds besides psychedelic ones. Part Two’s wider vision starts by adding non-mystical and non-psychedelic pieces to our collection as Chapter 8 locates psychedelics in a more general Multistate Theory. This theory helps organize how we think about our mind while it guides us to new ideas. Relying again on psychedelic examples, the path through Part Two’s other chapters shows us psychedelics can—but do not always: <BL> • • • • enhance cognition and raise intelligence, guide us toward new intellectual frontiers, produce new ways to interpret history philosophy, and movies, even propose that we can design new thinking processes. <T>Stretching the visionary sense even more, the last chapter of Part Two speculates about improving the brains of future generations. <A>From Lab to Life, From Clinic to Campus <TNI>In Part Three, our psychedelic idea-hike leads us into a town of the future. How can society benefit from the ideas we have discovered along the psychedelic trail? We will glance at planning-stage, hopeful ideas for: <BL> • raising $1Billion or more for psychedelic research and development, • • recruiting the public to support psychedelics’ uses, founding a new business whose service will provide safe, professionally guided psychedelic sessions, • reframing “well educated” to include learning to access useful abilities that reside in various mindbody states • enriching academia with new research questions, specialties, methods, and courses and course content. <TNI> Besides psychotherapy and beyond the experiences themselves, what fruitful ideas do psychedelics offer our society and our minds? .